Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.96) (envelope-from ) id 1wXInL-003BPF-0L for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:16:35 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.96) (envelope-from ) id 1wXInK-00BZpL-09 for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:16:34 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:3e1:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.96) (envelope-from ) id 1wXInJ-00BZpC-1I for pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:16:33 +0000 Received: from fout-a2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([103.168.172.145]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.98.2) (envelope-from ) id 1wXInH-000000020rm-2BET for pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:16:32 +0000 Received: from phl-compute-01.internal (phl-compute-01.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailfout.phl.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CED0EC01B3; Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:16:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from phl-frontend-03 ([10.202.2.162]) by phl-compute-01.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:16:30 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eisentraut.org; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:content-type:date :date:from:from:in-reply-to:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :references:reply-to:subject:subject:to:to; s=fm3; t=1781097390; x=1781183790; bh=nTd13rHmVlWX+lElORdgZftetrlTuGnDtDKlQhZCST0=; b= X1QOmAWmfwlVy7L/FE9iMnjHUecG9YzwC60PAeTEZQIXmC3loijz9J+ktN4ChJ8j Uiu38TVpbE4AgoRQx/6CChxZuEcjhO2S80OZ5U+X86eGUsmKcVOZA7cxoYPIXNUm TA39Hrx9lRcUgXT9eMD4St+b1gOExf5aw81R7f/xrr6pSFWpXVUjLTo2OxxXq2g9 e6i3uzd+fMrwzkVE/pDcgW/XoDNylE4po4VRhklAJH6bkL2SqjT/EUkR67p+EqNW GpVIGuL8e0f84Ycn6smHBaaGxHMG138qLkzWd5hH2k3eR2Syn17HiopPgxhwrlCf ivSWFA/I4Dv5DrLIF37MGg== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :content-type:date:date:feedback-id:feedback-id:from:from :in-reply-to:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :reply-to:subject:subject:to:to:x-me-proxy:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm1; t=1781097390; x=1781183790; bh=n Td13rHmVlWX+lElORdgZftetrlTuGnDtDKlQhZCST0=; b=NW8CM2XmhQvfqoiWB 3tuPSnivmt2X15FAgCDtyXX0ygNhTN3LrFl8XfRP/oqT/ZuT5N8fpydWCWL/xja7 K7NLS3cbowozvkA9MT/TuksnO65kNxlWvFXjiSTTaUDgf3TayrqHfP2xinuZizxS DA5byhNono1k93LZABEY6z3msCNvy+Px+FVLqkrMiw5ewU3Qdw4sc4qrm5LT549+ wSY1GSTflJ8dPI3htzmZ47F1C3iooYDtdMlkUeb3rHUForh+1R/7S3AAHSyEuWvQ DYG+LhjvceTCCkd4l+pjeTgsp/Am6j1Dou5aQTWuI5903RLLJNIQtZZ4yc6glpiE 2hk1A== X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Received: X-ME-Proxy-Cause: dmFkZTEFoI9Nysbv6142+k1K8uAU3ZxThO+c/jYkThGP5cIvZn3zo6pO2n0FsOnxGNsUQ1 lgNwTNnBJmG8Mk+Au96RmCFSqS5meXr9mwTIyiz0m3UAodehDKFxIsZTmBN6KHlf3po5RR 8LXrGJBEvEDECNtKOc1qr9nFz9pDEYqYrCE4WStUqkDyLLPReD4MqM8KX7y5K6tqlSptp8 1SQ1TgBr8cbBtr7mga7blJeWan6zL1qh96qfxMUuovF/wsD2LOLHh0sp2LiU+nANnRI2qm qWwcorfKj0o1rnZL/b16OygTSZVglHRVFPy/dZJ/QfMkUqFJLLBdKa5cIiy0pfFNAxmjQR 73cpQkpzwip38Fuuw9NMcd4Us0Jcs2jLpuRj8p8xMb7CnrDZIGRqgZ2aZYTAydzVhDDhBZ w0fr5STQEaFMpLAcriGXoTVK52fzmYQ1IzCIdZ/fC9sfB0opq9K7GlrjNdtoTBBil8U1et BvC6GjbqvwocELo64os45oc6m1Y6stLG5o5GCpWyOr5nDpqo8XaujNiwbFZYdCKXR886+a 6TYdT2WxWQ//lVCsWatZ50k73Euq842JWV0WL5UKzBbA/xJK0ae16jHUZ9n4n/MBuFsPlR 85e/2p0cIMHvBWjAPzcvkP/hvQGPgmldqv7ggDysz8lBKkC6h1bw2WEEBlSg X-ME-Proxy: Feedback-ID: ie0a040ee:Fastmail Received: by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:16:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <84f75c07-b8f2-45df-8457-aadb345e5dbb@eisentraut.org> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:16:28 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Patch for bind message to clarify signedness of parameters and result column format codes To: Dave Cramer , Pg Docs References: Content-Language: en-US From: Peter Eisentraut In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk On 09.06.26 13:51, Dave Cramer wrote: > Currently we don't say whether the number of parameters is signed or > unsigned. Same with results Instead of repeating this with every message, we should clarify this in the section "Message Data Types". I had always assumed that a type designation like Int16 or Int32 is signed, because of how they look like C types. But on the other hand, the POSIX functions to convert between host and network order only deal with unsigned types. So it's not obvious either way.